Srinagar: Police have started collecting the evidences including footages of close circuit television (CCTV) cameras to identify the people involved in the violent protests and ransacking of public property.
Ever since the turmoil broke out in the Valley on July 8 following the killing of Hizb commander Burhan Wani, Kashmir has witnessed worst ever protests in which as many as 90 people have been killed and hundreds injured.
Amid all this uprising, there has been heavy damage to public property at various places— somewhere by the protestors and also by the government forces.
The damage is estimated worth hundreds of crores of rupees. Some government offices, schools and police stations have been set on fire.
There are also videos that went viral where the forces smashed the window panes in scores of areas and damaging the ambulances which were ferrying injured ones to hospitals.
However, authorities have started collecting evidences about the damage done by the protestors and there seems no punishment for the security forces CRPF and J&K Police who were also seen in videos breaking cars and windowpanes of houses. Even some houses were ransacked by forces. Will the law punish them is something very interesting to been seen in near future.
A senior police official said police have registered hundreds of cases for destroying the public and private property during the ongoing crisis in the Valley.
According to him, police was ascertaining the details of the damaged property during the ongoing unrest and cases were being registered under Sections 148 (rioting), 427 (mischief), 336 (endangering life of others).
“Mostly FIRs have been registered under sections 436 and 427 RPC for destroying public property during the ongoing unrest in Kashmir,” the official said.
In some cases police have even made arrests but in most of the cases, police was yet to identify the accused.
The official said the police was collecting the CCTV footages and details across the Valley from other sources to identify the people involved in destroying the public property.
Police had established helpline numbers in the police control rooms of the respective districts for the general public who wish to inform regarding the “harassment by hooligans, damage/arson of the traffic by miscreants, damage/arson to the public property or obstacles erected on roads/lanes”.
Scores of youths are on the run as police have identified them of allegedly been part of the stone pelting incidents and destroying public property for the last 77 days. (PTK)
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